1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
13 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
14 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
15 * Support for Ulead DV audio
16 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
17 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
18 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
19 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
20 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
23 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
26 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
27 * Major improvements in DASH support
28 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
29 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
30 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
34 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
35 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
36 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
37 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
38 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
39 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
40 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
41 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
42 * Support for more MJPEG streams
45 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
46 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
47 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
48 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
51 * new remapping channel filter
52 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
53 * new VSXu visualization plugin
56 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
57 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
60 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
61 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
62 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
63 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
64 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
65 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
68 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
71 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
72 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
73 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
74 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
75 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
78 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
79 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
82 * add support for multiple video outputs
83 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
85 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
86 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
87 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
88 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
89 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
90 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
91 VLC's internal volume level
92 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
93 selection and to manage the list of presets
94 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
95 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
96 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
97 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
98 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
99 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
100 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
101 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
103 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
104 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
105 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
109 * Partial support for Qt5.0
110 * Menus modifications and improvements
111 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
112 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
116 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
117 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
118 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
119 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
122 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
123 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
124 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
125 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
126 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
127 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
129 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
130 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
133 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
134 --------------------------------
137 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
138 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
139 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
140 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
141 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
142 during playback on Mac OS X
145 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
146 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
147 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
150 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
151 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
152 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
153 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
154 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
157 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
158 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
159 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
160 * Support Youtube live streams
163 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
166 * Fix media info dialog update
167 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
168 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
169 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
170 * Fix album art display at start
173 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
174 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
175 * Fix menus display and behavior
176 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
177 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
178 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
179 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
180 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
181 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
182 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
185 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
186 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
187 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
188 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
189 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
190 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
191 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
192 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
193 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
196 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
197 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
198 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
199 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
202 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
203 --------------------------------
206 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
209 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
210 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
213 * Add GateKeeper support
214 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
215 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
216 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
219 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
222 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
223 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
224 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
225 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
226 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
229 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
230 --------------------------------
233 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
234 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
235 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
236 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
237 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
238 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
239 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
240 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
241 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
242 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
243 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
247 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
248 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
249 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
250 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
251 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
252 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
253 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
254 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
255 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
256 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
257 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
258 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
261 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
262 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
264 * Fix MP3 free format support
267 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
268 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
269 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
270 * Fix for DVB channels file support
271 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
274 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
275 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
277 Audio filters and output:
278 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
279 * Fix DirectSound device selection
280 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
281 * Do not apply volume in file output
282 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
283 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
286 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
287 the persistant media library
288 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
289 to the media library or the temporary playlist
290 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
291 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
292 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
293 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
294 press on the Play/Pause button
295 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
296 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
297 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
298 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
299 * Many Fullscreen fixes
300 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
301 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
302 Synchronization panel
303 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
304 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
305 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
306 * Fix crashes on exit
307 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
309 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
310 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
311 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
312 automatically reset on the first launch.
313 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
314 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
315 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
318 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
319 * Fixes for icecast SD
322 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
323 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
324 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
325 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
326 * Fix tags and file names display
327 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
330 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
331 * Fix for key events and focus loss
334 * Fix display of some buttons
335 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
336 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
339 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
340 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
341 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
344 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
345 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
346 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
347 Thai translations update
348 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
351 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
352 --------------------------------
355 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
356 * fix the samba module compilation
357 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
358 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
359 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
360 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
363 * Support for MXPEG files
364 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
365 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
368 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
369 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
370 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
373 * Fix ogm header creation
376 * limit spatializer filter distortions
377 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
380 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
381 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
382 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
383 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
386 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
389 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
390 * allow to hide the sidebar
391 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
392 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
393 * noticebly faster launch time
394 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
395 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
396 * improve track synchronization panel
397 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
398 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
401 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
402 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
403 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
404 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
407 * fix for menus display
408 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
409 * documentation update
412 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
413 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
416 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
417 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
418 * Update Jamendo selections
422 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
423 * fix a crash on VLM close
426 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
427 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
428 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
429 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
432 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
435 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
436 ---------------------------------
439 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
440 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
441 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
442 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
443 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
444 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
445 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
446 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
447 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
448 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
449 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
450 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
451 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
452 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
453 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
454 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
455 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
456 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
457 --http-crl (optional CRL).
458 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
459 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
460 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
461 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
462 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
463 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
464 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
466 Important changes for packagers:
467 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
468 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
469 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
470 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
471 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
472 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
473 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
474 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
475 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
476 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
479 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
480 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
481 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
482 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
483 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
484 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
485 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
488 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
489 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
490 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
491 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
492 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
493 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
494 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
495 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
496 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
497 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
498 * PulseAudio audio input support
499 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
500 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
501 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
502 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
503 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
504 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
505 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
506 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
509 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
510 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
511 are notably concerned.
512 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
513 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
514 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
515 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
516 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
517 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
518 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
519 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
520 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
521 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
522 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
523 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
524 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
525 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
526 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
529 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
530 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
531 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
532 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
533 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
534 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
535 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
536 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
537 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
538 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
539 * Improved support of tracker files
540 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
543 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
544 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
545 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
546 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
547 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
548 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
549 and important cleanups and optimisations
550 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
551 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
552 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
553 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
554 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
555 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
556 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
557 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
558 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
559 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
560 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
561 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
562 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
563 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
564 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
565 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
566 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
567 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
568 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
569 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
570 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
573 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
574 * New video output for iOS platform
575 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
576 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
577 * Various vmem improvements
578 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
579 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
580 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
581 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
582 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
583 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
585 Audio Output and Filters:
586 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
587 * New audio output in memory (amem)
588 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
589 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
590 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
591 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
592 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
593 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
594 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
595 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
598 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
599 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
600 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
601 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
602 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
603 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
604 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
605 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
606 * New anti-flickering filter
607 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
608 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
609 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
610 blackbox and customizable shadow.
611 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
612 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
613 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
616 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
617 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
618 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
619 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
620 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
621 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
622 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
623 * Major rework of VoD support
624 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
625 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
626 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
627 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
628 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
629 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
630 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
631 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
632 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
633 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
636 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
637 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
640 * New capabilities for libVLC:
641 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
642 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
643 list of available audio and video filters
644 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
645 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
646 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
649 * asademux, subsass: use libass
650 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
651 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
653 * upnp: use upnp_intel
654 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
655 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
656 * removal of the noise filter
657 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
658 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
659 removed in Growl's next release, too.
660 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
663 * Update of translations for most languages.
664 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
667 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
668 ----------------------------------
671 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
672 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
675 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
676 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
679 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
680 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
681 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
684 * Camtasia decoding fix.
687 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
688 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
691 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
694 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
695 ----------------------------------
698 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
699 including support for OS X Lion
700 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
701 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
704 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
707 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
708 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
709 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
712 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
715 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
716 ----------------------------------
719 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
720 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
723 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
724 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
725 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
726 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
727 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
729 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
730 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
731 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
733 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
734 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
737 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
740 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
743 * Fix quitting on Linux
744 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
748 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
751 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
754 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
755 ---------------------------------
757 Windows and Mac OS X:
758 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
761 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
762 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
765 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
768 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
771 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
773 Miscellaneous fixes in:
774 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
776 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
777 * RTP output and XML export
778 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
782 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
783 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
784 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
785 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
788 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
789 --------------------------------
791 Windows and Mac OS X:
792 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
795 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
798 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
799 * Improve Apple Remote handling
800 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
801 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
802 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
803 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
806 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
807 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
811 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
812 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
813 * New Luganda Translation
816 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
817 --------------------------------
820 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
823 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
824 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
825 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
826 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
829 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
831 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
832 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
833 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
834 * mp4 demuxer improvements
835 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
836 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
837 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
838 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
840 Miscellaneous fixes in:
841 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
842 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
843 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
844 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
845 * Configure and build system improvements
846 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
849 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
850 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
851 * New icelandic translation
854 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
855 --------------------------------
858 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
862 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
863 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
864 and stability reasons
867 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
871 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
874 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
875 ----------------------------------
878 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
881 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
882 ---------------------------------
885 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
886 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
887 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
888 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
891 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
894 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
895 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
896 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
897 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
900 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
901 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
902 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
904 Subtitles and renderer:
905 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
906 * Mark more freetype options as safe
907 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
908 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
909 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
912 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
913 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
914 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
915 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
918 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
919 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
922 * KDE device solid actions
924 * Transcode integer overflow
925 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
926 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
929 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
930 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
931 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
934 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
935 ----------------------------------
938 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
942 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
945 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
948 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
949 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
950 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
951 * Taglib thread-safety fix
954 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
958 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
961 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
964 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
965 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
967 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
971 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
972 * Miscellaneous fixes
975 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
976 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
978 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
979 * New Asturian translation
982 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
983 ----------------------------------
986 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
988 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
991 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
994 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
995 * Various fixes for Windows
998 * New Armenian translation
999 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1000 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1003 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1004 --------------------------------
1007 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1008 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1009 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1012 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1013 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1016 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1017 --------------------------------
1019 Access and demuxers:
1020 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1021 * fix for podcasts parsing
1022 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1025 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1026 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1029 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1030 * fix m3u playlists exports
1033 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1036 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1039 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1042 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1045 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1048 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1049 --------------------------------
1052 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1053 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1056 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1057 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1060 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1061 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1062 * fix console output encoding
1064 Interface and extensions:
1065 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1066 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1069 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1070 --------------------------------
1073 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1074 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1075 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1076 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1077 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1078 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1079 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1080 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1081 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1082 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1083 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1084 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1085 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1086 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1087 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1088 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1092 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1093 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1094 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1095 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1096 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1099 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1102 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1103 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1104 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1108 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1111 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1112 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1113 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1116 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1117 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1118 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1119 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1122 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1123 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1126 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1127 --------------------------------
1129 Important changes for users:
1130 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1131 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1133 Important changes for packagers:
1134 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1135 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1136 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1137 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1138 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1140 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1142 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1143 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1144 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1145 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1146 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1149 * Support for the sftp protocol
1150 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1151 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1152 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1153 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1154 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1157 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1158 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1159 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1161 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1162 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1163 * Invmem module improvements
1164 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1165 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1166 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1167 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1168 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1169 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1170 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1171 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1172 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1173 * Support for VP8 codec
1174 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1177 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1178 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1179 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1180 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1181 * Various EGP improvements
1182 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1183 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1186 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1187 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1188 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1189 * Podcast images are now displayed
1192 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1193 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1194 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1195 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1196 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1197 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1198 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1199 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1200 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1201 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1202 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1205 * New content extensions lua framework
1208 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1209 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1210 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1211 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1212 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1213 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1214 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1217 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1218 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1219 * Service discovery based on libudev
1220 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1223 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1224 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1225 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1226 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1227 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1228 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1229 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1232 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1233 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1234 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1237 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1239 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1240 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1243 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1246 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1247 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1248 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1249 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1250 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1251 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1252 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1255 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1256 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1259 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1260 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1261 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1265 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1266 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1267 * Improved Solaris port
1270 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1271 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1274 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1275 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1276 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1277 * transrate: broken since too long
1278 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1279 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1280 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1281 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1282 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1283 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1284 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1285 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1286 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1287 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1288 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1289 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1290 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1291 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1294 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1295 --------------------------------
1298 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1300 Decoders/Packetizers:
1301 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1304 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1305 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1306 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1307 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1308 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1311 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1312 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1315 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1316 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1319 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1320 and Walloon translations updated
1321 * Sinhala translation started
1324 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1325 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1328 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1329 --------------------------------
1332 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1333 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1336 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1339 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1340 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1343 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1344 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1345 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1346 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1349 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1350 --------------------------------
1353 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1354 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1357 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1358 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1361 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1362 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1365 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1368 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1369 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1372 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1373 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1376 * New Walloon translation
1377 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1380 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1381 --------------------------------
1384 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1385 regressions in most popular drivers
1386 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1389 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1390 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1391 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1394 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1395 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1398 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1399 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1400 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1401 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1402 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1405 * New udev module for linux
1408 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1411 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1414 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1415 --------------------------------
1418 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1419 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1420 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1423 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1424 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1427 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1428 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1431 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1434 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1435 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1436 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1437 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1440 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1441 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1442 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1443 - no support for Goom and SDL
1444 - limited text rendering support
1445 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1448 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1449 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1450 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1451 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1452 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1453 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1454 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1455 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1456 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1460 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1463 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1466 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1467 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1468 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1469 Arabic and French translation updates
1472 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1473 --------------------------------
1476 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1477 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1478 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1479 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1480 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1481 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1484 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1485 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1486 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1489 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1490 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1491 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1494 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1497 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1498 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1501 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1502 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1503 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1504 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1505 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1506 * Fix various crashes
1509 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1511 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1515 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1516 ---------------------------------
1520 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1521 See 'Access:' for more info.
1522 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1525 * Instantaneous pausing
1526 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1527 * Finer speed control
1528 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1529 * Timeshift for most medias
1530 * RTSP trickplay support
1531 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1534 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1535 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1536 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1537 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1538 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1539 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1540 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1541 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1542 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1543 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1546 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1547 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1548 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1549 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1550 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1551 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1552 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1555 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1556 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1559 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1560 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1561 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1562 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1563 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1564 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1565 * DVB scanning on linux
1566 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1567 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1568 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1569 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1570 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1571 * MTP device access on Unix
1572 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1573 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1576 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1577 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1578 Windows and Mac OS X.
1581 * Export the playlist in HTML
1582 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1583 * Better metadata handling and reading
1585 Linux/Windows interface:
1586 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1587 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1588 * Recently played items list
1589 * Interface toolbar customizations
1590 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1591 - More menus actions
1592 - Finer speed slider
1593 - Improvements on many dialogs
1594 - New dialog for plugins listing
1595 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1596 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1597 * Better integration in GTK environments
1600 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1601 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1602 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1603 * Additional usability improvements
1606 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1607 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1608 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1609 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1610 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1613 * New Maemo port with:
1614 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1615 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1618 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1621 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1622 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1623 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1624 * Support for latest iSight models
1627 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1628 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1631 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1632 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1633 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1634 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1635 The old image video output has been removed.
1636 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1637 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1640 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1648 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1649 --------------------------------------
1655 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1656 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1657 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1658 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1659 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1660 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1661 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1663 Various fixes to the following modules:
1666 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1667 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1668 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1670 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1675 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1676 ---------------------------------
1679 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1680 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1683 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1684 ---------------------------------
1687 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1690 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1693 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1694 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1695 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1696 main controller window.
1697 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1700 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1705 * Updates of other localizations
1708 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1709 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1710 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1711 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1712 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1715 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1716 ---------------------------------
1719 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1721 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1724 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1725 --------------------------------
1730 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1731 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1734 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1735 --------------------------------
1737 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1738 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1741 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1744 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1745 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1748 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1749 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1752 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1753 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1754 * Various fixed in playlist
1757 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1760 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1763 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1764 ------------------------------------
1766 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1767 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1770 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1771 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1772 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1775 * Stability fix for the video output.
1778 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1783 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1784 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1785 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1786 * Fixed update system bugs
1787 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1790 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1791 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1792 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1793 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1794 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1795 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1796 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1797 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1798 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1799 modern Mac OS X versions
1802 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1803 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1805 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1806 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1809 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1810 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1811 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1812 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1813 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1814 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1817 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1818 --------------------------------
1820 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1821 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1822 * Multiple bugfixes.
1825 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1826 --------------------------------
1828 * Multiple bug fixes.
1831 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1832 ---------------------------------
1836 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1837 recent to work correctly
1838 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1839 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1840 edit the ".hosts" file.
1841 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1842 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1843 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1844 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1845 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1846 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1847 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1848 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1849 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1850 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1851 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1852 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1853 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1854 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1855 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1856 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1857 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1858 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1859 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1860 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1861 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1862 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1863 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1864 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1865 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1866 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1867 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1868 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1869 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1870 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1871 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1872 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1873 and postproc modules.
1874 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1875 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1876 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1877 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1879 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1880 filter. For example:
1881 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1882 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1884 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1885 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1891 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1893 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1894 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1897 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1898 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1900 * Shoutcast TV listings
1901 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1903 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1904 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1906 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1909 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1910 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1911 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1912 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1913 * JACK audio input support
1914 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1915 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1916 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1917 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1918 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1919 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1920 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1921 (available as a separate download).
1922 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1923 * RTMP input support
1924 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1925 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1926 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1928 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1929 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1932 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1933 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1934 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1935 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1937 * APEv1/2 tags support
1938 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1939 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1941 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1942 * TiVo Series 2 support
1943 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1948 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1949 * Flash Screen Video support
1950 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1951 * DosBox Capture support
1952 * Karl Morton's Video support
1953 * limited atrac3 support
1955 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1956 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1957 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1958 * H.264 PAFF support
1959 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1960 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1961 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1962 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1963 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1966 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1967 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1968 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1969 * AQTitle subtitles support
1970 * MKV USF subtitles support
1971 * HTML-based subtitles support
1972 * MPSub subtitles support
1973 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1974 * MPL2 subtitles support
1975 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1976 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1977 * Realtext subtitle support
1978 * DKS subtitle support
1979 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1980 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1983 * Flash Screen Video support
1984 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1986 Video outputs and filters:
1987 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1988 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1989 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1990 * New puzzle video output filter
1991 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1992 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1994 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1995 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1996 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1997 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1998 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1999 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2000 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2001 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2002 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2003 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2004 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2005 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2006 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2007 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2009 Audio outputs and filters:
2010 * Replay gain support
2011 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2012 new scaletempo audio filter)
2013 * New spatializer audio filter
2014 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2017 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2018 * New RTP payload formats:
2019 * Speex voice audio codec
2020 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2021 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2022 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2023 * DCCP transport for RTP
2024 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2029 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2030 end-user suitable way.
2031 * Improved user interaction
2032 * Improved mouse gestures
2033 * Vastly improved Update checker
2034 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2036 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2037 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2039 * Improved video output features
2040 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2041 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2042 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2043 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2044 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2046 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2047 if libncursesw is available.
2048 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2049 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2050 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2052 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2053 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2054 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2055 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2056 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2057 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2058 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2059 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2062 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2063 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2064 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2067 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2068 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2069 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2070 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2071 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2072 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2075 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2076 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2086 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2087 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2088 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2091 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2092 ----------------------------------
2095 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2098 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2099 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2100 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2101 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2102 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2103 * Updated Polish translation
2106 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2107 ----------------------------------
2110 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2111 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2112 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2115 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2116 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2117 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2118 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2119 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2120 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2121 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2122 to an unexpected application termination
2123 * New Serbian translation
2124 * Updated Romanian translation
2127 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2128 ----------------------------------
2131 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2132 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2133 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2134 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2135 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2136 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2137 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2138 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2141 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2142 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2143 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2144 * Fixed AAC resampling
2145 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2146 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2149 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2150 ----------------------------------
2153 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2154 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2155 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2156 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2157 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2160 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2161 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2162 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2163 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2164 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2167 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2168 ----------------------------------
2171 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2172 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2175 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2176 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2177 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2178 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2180 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2184 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2187 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2190 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2193 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2196 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2197 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2198 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2199 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2200 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2202 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2203 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2204 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2205 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2208 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2211 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2212 ----------------------------------
2215 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2216 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2217 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2219 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2220 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2222 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2223 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2226 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2228 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2229 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2230 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2231 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2232 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2233 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2234 two different movies
2235 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2236 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2237 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2240 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2243 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2244 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2245 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2246 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2249 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2250 ----------------------------------
2252 Various bugfixes, notably:
2253 * Windows Vista compatibility
2254 * Cropping in Direct3D
2255 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2256 * RSS filter string overflow
2258 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2260 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2261 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2264 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2265 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2268 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2271 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2274 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2277 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2278 ----------------------------------
2280 Various bugfixes, notably:
2281 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2282 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2283 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2284 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2285 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2286 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2289 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2290 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2293 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2295 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2296 * Diverse usability improvements
2297 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2298 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2299 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2302 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2303 ---------------------------------
2305 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2306 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2309 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2312 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2313 --------------------------------
2316 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2319 * Support for RTSP authentication
2320 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2321 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2322 * ATSC support for DVB input
2323 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2324 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2325 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2328 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2329 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2330 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2331 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2332 * Matroska WavPack support
2333 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2334 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2335 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2338 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2339 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2340 * Improved libcaca support
2344 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2345 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2347 * Systray support in skins
2349 * Support for Apple Remote control
2350 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2351 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2352 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2353 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2355 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2358 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2359 Windows 9x/ME users:
2360 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2361 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2362 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2363 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2364 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2366 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2367 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2376 * Updates to the libvlc API
2377 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2380 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2381 --------------------------------
2384 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2385 * Support for downloading updates
2389 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2390 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2391 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2392 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2394 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2395 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2396 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2399 * Cook (Real audio) support
2401 Playlist / Services discovery:
2402 * XSPF playlist support
2404 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2407 * New JACK audio output
2410 * New video filters:
2411 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2412 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2413 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2414 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2415 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2416 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2419 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2422 * System to inform the user and request information
2423 - HTTP authentication
2427 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2428 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2429 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2432 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2433 - Improved playlist handling
2434 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2436 - Embedded Video output
2437 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2438 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2439 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2440 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2441 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2443 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2444 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2447 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2450 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2451 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2452 * Growl "Now playing" support
2455 * Ability to log to syslog
2456 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2459 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2461 * A bit more automatic testing
2464 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2465 ---------------------------------
2468 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2469 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2472 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2473 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2476 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2479 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2480 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2486 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2489 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2490 --------------------------------
2493 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2497 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2498 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2499 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2502 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2503 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2504 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2505 * GnomeVFS input module
2506 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2507 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2510 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2511 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2512 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2515 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2516 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2522 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2523 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2526 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2527 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2528 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2531 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2533 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2534 - New extended controls panel
2535 - New bookmarks window
2536 - Fixed playlist sorting
2537 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2539 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2540 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2541 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2542 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2546 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2547 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2549 - Include macro to include other files
2553 * Should now work outside IE as well
2556 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2559 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2560 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2563 The following languages were added:
2567 * Simplified Chinese
2568 The following languages were re-added:
2572 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2573 --------------------------------
2576 * Rewrite of the playlist
2578 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2579 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2580 * Preferences improvements:
2581 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2582 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2584 * Core image manipulation support
2585 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2586 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2587 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2588 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2589 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2590 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2591 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2592 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2593 * Access filter architecture
2594 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2595 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2599 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2600 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2601 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2602 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2603 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2604 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2605 * Massive Matroska improvements
2606 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2608 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2609 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2610 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2611 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2612 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2614 Decoders / Encoders:
2615 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2616 * PNG decoder/encoder
2617 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2618 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2621 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2624 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2625 * Brand new SAP module
2626 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2627 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2628 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2629 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2630 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2631 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2635 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2638 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2639 * Image file video output (png)
2640 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2641 * Improvements to wall video filter
2642 * Support for font color and opacity
2648 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2649 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2650 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2654 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2655 - Improved preferences
2656 - Improvements to the wizard
2657 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2659 - Redesigned playlist
2660 - Improved preferences
2662 - Support for multiple actions
2665 - Support for the new playlist system
2667 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2670 * Screensaver disabling fix
2671 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2672 * Support for no-decoration windows
2675 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2676 * The OpenGL video output is back
2677 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2678 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2679 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2680 is not yet available in the new module
2681 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2684 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2693 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2696 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2699 The following languages were added:
2705 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2706 --------------------------------
2709 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2710 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2713 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2714 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2715 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2718 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2721 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2724 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2727 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2728 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2729 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2733 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2735 * Support of playlist group announcement
2738 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2739 --------------------------------
2742 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2743 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2744 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2745 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2746 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2747 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2750 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2751 (Stream your desktop)
2752 * Improved DVD support:
2753 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2754 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2755 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2756 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2757 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2758 (selection of titles/chapters).
2761 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2762 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2763 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2764 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2765 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2766 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2767 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2768 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2769 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2770 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2773 * G.726 audio support
2774 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2775 * MPEG-4 text support
2776 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2777 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2778 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2782 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2783 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2784 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2785 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2786 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2787 * DVB subtitles encoder
2788 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2789 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2791 * Text track muxing for mp4
2792 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2793 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2794 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2795 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2796 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2797 * Improved ASF muxer
2799 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2800 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2801 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2804 * New audio equalizer filter
2805 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2806 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2807 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2808 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2811 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2812 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2813 with support for effects.
2814 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2815 - New filters can be streamed.
2816 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2817 - Centralized scaling and blending
2819 - "time", to display current time
2820 - "marq", to display a marquee
2823 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2824 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2825 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2826 * A few skins2 improvements
2827 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2828 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2829 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2830 * Improved CORBA control module
2833 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2834 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2835 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2838 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2839 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2840 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2843 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2844 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2845 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2846 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2847 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2850 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2853 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2854 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2857 * Server/client network synchronization module
2858 * VBrick streams fully supported
2859 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2863 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2864 --------------------------------
2867 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2868 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2869 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2870 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2873 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2874 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2875 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2876 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2877 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2878 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2879 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2882 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2883 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2884 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2885 * Improved directory access module.
2886 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2887 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2888 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2889 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2890 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2893 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2894 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2895 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2898 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2899 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2900 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2903 * Improved session announcement system.
2904 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2905 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2906 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2907 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2908 * Improved transrater.
2909 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2910 * New configuration system.
2911 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2914 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2915 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2916 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2917 * Supports scheduling.
2918 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2919 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2922 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2923 - Ability to embed video output.
2924 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2925 - Lots of improvements.
2926 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2927 - New design and set of icons.
2928 - Ability to embed video output.
2929 - Support for hotkeys.
2930 - Support for bookmarks.
2932 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2933 - Better hotkeys handling.
2936 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2937 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2938 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2939 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2942 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2943 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2944 * Improved Windows installer.
2950 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2951 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2954 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2955 ---------------------------------
2958 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2959 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2962 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2963 --------------------------------
2966 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2967 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2970 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2971 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2972 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2973 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2976 * Internal improvments
2977 * Improved import/export
2980 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2982 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2983 small and strange formats.
2985 * New MOD audio demux.
2986 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2987 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2988 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2989 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2992 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2993 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2994 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3000 * New opengl video output plugin.
3003 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3004 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3007 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3008 --------------------------------
3011 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3012 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3013 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3014 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3015 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3016 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3017 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3018 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3021 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3026 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3027 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3028 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3029 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3030 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3031 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3032 * Better Icecast support.
3033 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3034 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3037 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3038 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3039 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3040 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3041 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3042 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3043 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3046 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3047 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3048 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3049 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3050 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3051 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3052 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3053 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3054 * Preliminary RTP support.
3055 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3060 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3061 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3063 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3064 - Improvements and help in preferences
3065 - New streaming wizard
3066 - Revised Disc Open menu
3068 - Improvements of the standard pages
3069 - Support for new commands
3070 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3073 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3074 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3077 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3078 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3079 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3080 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3081 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3082 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3083 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3084 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3085 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3088 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3090 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3091 * Support for Panther.
3092 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3093 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3096 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3097 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3098 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3099 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3100 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3101 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3102 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3103 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3106 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3107 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3108 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3111 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3114 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3115 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3116 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3117 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3120 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3121 --------------------------------
3124 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3127 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3128 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3131 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3132 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3135 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3138 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3139 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3142 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3145 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3148 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3149 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3153 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3154 --------------------------------
3157 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3158 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3162 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3163 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3164 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3166 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3167 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3170 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3173 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3176 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3177 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3181 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3182 --------------------------------
3185 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3186 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3190 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3191 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3192 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3193 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3194 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3197 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3198 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3199 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3202 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3203 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3204 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3207 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3208 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3209 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3210 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3211 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3214 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3215 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3216 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3219 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3222 * Improved build system.
3223 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3224 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3225 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3226 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3229 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3230 --------------------------------
3233 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3236 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3237 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3238 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3239 * Video 4 Linux support
3240 * CD Digital Audio support
3241 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3244 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3245 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3246 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3247 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3250 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3251 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3252 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3253 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3254 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3255 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3256 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3259 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3260 * New HTTP remote control interface
3263 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3264 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3265 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3266 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3267 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3270 * New reset option for the preferences
3271 * You can set your language in the prefences
3272 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3273 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3274 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3275 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3278 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3279 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3280 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3283 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3284 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3285 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3286 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3287 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3288 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3289 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3290 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3291 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3292 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3295 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3296 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3297 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3298 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3299 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3300 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3301 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3304 * Interface localization
3305 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3306 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3307 * New full-featured Preferences window
3310 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3311 --------------------------------
3314 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3315 * support for skins at the interface level
3316 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3317 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3318 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3319 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3320 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3323 * fixed HTTP redirects
3324 * support for opening an entire directory
3325 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3326 * new video4linux access plug-in
3327 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3330 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3331 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3332 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3335 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3336 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3337 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3338 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3339 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3340 * new codec for raw I420 video
3341 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3344 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3345 (although it still misses some important features)
3346 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3349 * new HTTP output support
3350 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3351 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3354 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3357 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3360 * reorderable playlist
3361 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3362 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3363 * support for mono audio output devices
3364 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3365 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3366 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3367 * the messages window remembers more lines
3368 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3369 * http and ogg stream output options
3370 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3373 * new skinnable interface
3374 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3376 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3377 * support for FLAC audio format
3378 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3380 * network tab in the interface
3381 * "apply" handling in preferences
3384 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3385 ---------------------------------
3388 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3389 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3390 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3391 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3393 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3394 * DTS S/PDIF support
3397 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3398 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3399 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3400 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3403 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3404 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3407 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3410 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3413 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3415 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3416 * rc interface is now fully useable
3417 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3420 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3421 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3422 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3423 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3424 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3426 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3427 * support for mouse gestures
3428 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3431 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3432 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3435 * improved ID3 tag detection
3436 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3437 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3438 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3440 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3443 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3444 ---------------------------------
3447 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3448 English was set as the preferred language
3451 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3452 --------------------------------
3455 * new mouse gesture interface
3456 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3460 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3461 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3462 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3465 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3466 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3470 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3473 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3474 without the user consent
3477 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3479 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3480 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3481 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3484 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3485 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3486 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3487 * playlist enhancements
3488 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3489 * new step forward/step backward commands
3490 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3491 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3492 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3495 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3496 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3497 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3500 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3501 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3504 * native video output is working again
3505 * only commandline interface support
3506 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3509 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3510 --------------------------------
3513 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3514 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3515 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3516 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3517 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3518 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3519 and A/52 streams are supported)
3520 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3525 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3526 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3527 * VCD entry points support
3528 * VCD image file support
3531 * support for *.asf format
3532 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3533 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3534 * support for ogg encapsulation
3535 * support for raw DV format
3536 * support for *.wav format
3537 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3540 Stream discovery & playlists:
3541 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3542 * support for .m3u file format
3543 * support for .asx file format
3544 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3547 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3548 (only available with the .avi demux)
3549 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3550 * support for raw PCM data
3551 * support for Cinepak video codec
3552 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3553 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3554 * support for Xvid codec
3555 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3556 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3557 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3559 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3561 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3564 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3567 * new WxWindows interface
3568 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3569 device and the channels configuration
3570 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3571 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3572 format that VLC can play
3573 * new swedish translation
3574 * enhancements of the playlist window
3575 * new messages window to see debug info
3576 * fixed a few crashes
3579 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3580 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3581 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3582 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working